Battlefield 4 For PS4 Suffering Crashing Issues

Yesterday, after having some stability issues coinciding with the launch of the Playstation 4, Electronic Arts posted -- and removed -- a message blaming Sony's firmware update for stability issues on the console. Now, a day later, EA is taking some heat for a crashing problem that is plaguing the PS4 version of Battlefield 4 that seems to have nothing to do with the firmware update.

According to many users on the Battlefield 4 forums, players have been getting kicked out of games, and are getting shown error code CE-34878-0. Upon relaunch of the game, the game will load fine at first before telling you, the first time after receiving the initial error, that your save file has been corrupted and must be deleted...

[Majin-vegeta]

BF4 is an unoptimized POS game just look at on PC,PS3 and 360.

[Enemy]

It actually is. Not sure why you got a disagree. The game is a completely broken mess even on PC. Anyone looking forward to buying it should wait it out a bit longer.

[hellzsupernova]

this is battlefield though, when have they released a non buggy version?

[HelpfulGamer]

Battlefield 4 PS4 Japanese version release date, February 24 2014, can't wait! XD

[Comnnsence]

Obviously they wanted to beat Infinity Ward COD to the store. But this is a norm, EA got to be the worse 3rd party company with deep pockets! Now, all we gonna get is a bunch of patches that eventually gonna full up our HDD......bastards

[IaMs12]

Most of the bugs and crashes are server based. The game itself is very well optimized.

[Golden_Mud]

I have to agree with you both , even CoD is bad , the only good games I saw for now are KZ:SF and DR3 (yes I'm buying both consoles)

[Lwhit6]

@laMs12 no. The whole game is broken. Servers don't run the single player which is where the floor of one level glitched out causing me to fall and die multiple times. Oh well its not like it matters because I just had to redo the campaign three times over because the game didn't save. It's a massive, fumbling, broken P.O.S. there's no way around that fact.

[static5245]

While I do admit that I love the BF series and I do enjoy BF4 but I definitely don't play it as much as I normally would because of all the bugs.

I don't blame DICE for this at all. They have proven themselves at releasing awesome FPS. But as soon as EA got their hooks into them things have gone down hill. I guarantee DICE wanted more time to work on the game, but here comes EA and says to bad it needs to be released on this date broken or not.

I'm actually happy Watch Dogs got pushed back. There's no shame in needing a little more time to make sure your game his going to be as good as it can be for release

[Kryptix]

Even with PC being the main platform BF4 is being designed on...it still had reports of the game crashing. The game probably got rushed to stay competitive with Ghosts in sales. It's something a patch could fix but EA needs to give DICE more time to optimize their game next time. It gives them a bad view which results in less sales for the next game in this amazing franchise.

[hakeem0996]

KARMA'S A BITCH

[xXxSeTTriPxXx]

Haven't played 1 f'ing game of conquest=fail.

[Philoctetes]

Yes, this game is definitely busted, but it's so good when it's working. Which is not very often.

[JsonHenry]

I play it on the PC and it isn't a "broken mess" for me or any of the ~20 people I play with on a regular basis.

[AlexanderNevermind]

I've yet to get into a MP game since Friday morning. I just deleted the game install and am reinstalling it now. Who knows maybe I'll get in a game today.

[Lwhit6]

YES! I've had to restart my campaign THREE times and I can't play it for more than hour without crashing AT LEAST 3 times

[frostypants]

People actually play the campaign? It's Battlefield...playing the single player campaign is sacrilege. Its very presence is just to appease people uncomfortable with buying an online-only game.

[FalconR289]

Same thing kept happening to me. 3 times I had to restart the campaign. About a 1/4 of the way through the Singapore mission it crashed and corrupted my saved data, 3 times in the same spot.

[MajorLazer]

@Frostypants

..because you speak for everyone /s

[SaturdayNightBeaver]

lol yep , with console its nothing wrong

[Evil_Abed]

I just love how ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING will be thrown under the bus to protect the PlayStation image on this site. It's always someone or something else's fault but never the PS brand.

Bad review for exclusive? Reviewer must be biased, a noon or doesn't understand the game.
Technical difficulty with PS version of game? Lazy devs!
Firmware bricking console? Don't switch of the console while it's still updating, duh!

Game runs better on PS console? Yeah dat GDDR 7000/cell of hope!

[Majin-vegeta]

Maybe you should head on over to Battlelog and see for yourself.its the game and not the hardware.

[Autodidactdystopia]

That is as true as it gets, and yours and my disagree counts will verify that.

[sourav93]

Yet you will stay blind to the fact that some of those reason's are actually valid. Hypocrite much? With BF4, I can no longer progress on SP because the game keeps crashing on the beginning of mission 7, and this is on PC. The game is completely broken.

[Mr-Dude]

And the same thing doesn't happen with other systems? Like for example the Xbox One or PC?

I am very curious for the 21 and the 22nd, for the reviews of the X1, and what the Xbox fans are going to say when things aren't going the way they want or hope. And the youtube vids appear online of "broken" systems etc... because they will, it's launch hardware and software!

[frostypants]

GGJ, in this case, it's well known that all versions of the game are buggy as hell. Your comments are misplaced.

[ceed911]

Consoles suffering hardware issues? Foxconn had saboteurs in there to destroy Sony's launch because China hates Japan.

Although I cant find this story on any credible site nor is a picture of an open PS4 prove much.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I guess you haven't played the game then,and haven't played every other PS4 game that doesn't crash.

[V0LT]

Agree. I have BF4 on the PC and it really is a optimized POS at the moment.

[GirlOnFire]

I have an perfectly fine experience with battlefield 4. It was Ghost that was the problem with error code for me. It works today and it said I had corrupt data then worked fine. It was most likely an update problem because I started Ghost without the update first. ^~^

[Nocando]

I have to agree, playing bf4 today and it crashed 3 times, not to mention this annoying glitch where the screen looks like its going into 3d mode and back. Fun game when it works, but I expect far better for the $70 "digital deluxe" premium.

[XboxFun]

And yet everyone was jumping for joy and dubsteppin not too long ago on N4G about dat 1080p for PS4.

Kind of hard to enjoy that 1080 when your game keeps crashing eh?

Another example of jumping the gun and celebrating before actually getting your hands on the game. And also another example of how resolution means nothing if your game is either crap or can't even work.

Both CoD and BF4 were rushed out to meet both new consoles release date. Instead they could have held these versions back and tweaked them more and released them later maybe even during Xmas time to make sure the game was working correctly.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Yes it's hard to enjoy it when it's crashing. What's your point?

[RyuCloudStrife]

I got that same screen on Killzone Shadow Fall one time so far... I'm about to finish the campaign now.

[Mosiac77]

It must be EA because my copies of killzone and COD are working fine on SP and MP so is not the firmware.

[kevnb]

Works great on my pc

[Magicite]

runs nice at high settings on my hd7770 2gb + i5 2400

[princejb134]

I got this error 4 times thus far
The game is still playable

[trancefreak]

I have the PC version because I couldn't wait to play BF4 but I had already ordered the PS4 version as well. I wanted to play with a ton of my co workers whom just received PS4's. Looks like that isn't happening with this game

I have not opened the BF4 PS4 version as of yet and its being returned. I am having to much fun playing Shadowfall so I will use the credit to get a compatible gaming headset.

[Skizelli]

Anyone who says BF4 is optimized is full of crap. The game is buggy in general, no matter what platform it's on. I've been playing it on PS3. The game played fine the first day or so, but then I started experiencing game freezes. They weren't random, however. I noticed it only happened when spawning on a squad member, but not when I was alone or the Commander. After browsing some forums and then Reddit, I found out the game's field perks are bugged and I have to use the Defensive perk until they fix the rest. Sure enough, the problem was solved and I haven't froze since.

Battlefield is fun and all, but it's been a buggy, clunky franchise ever since BF1942.

[starchild]

I don't know what you are talking about. I haven't had any problems with the PC version. It looks amazing and runs extremely well.

I have an HD 7950 and i5 2500k and I can tell you Battlefield 4 looks at least as good as Crysis 3 (probably better) and runs a hell of a lot better. I haven't had any real issue to speak of. I think they did a pretty good job optimizing it for the PC. I can't imagine how good it is going to run after the Mantle API is made available.

[Skizelli]

Like I said, the game ran fine for me for a day or so, even when I chose different field perks. Maybe you're one of the lucky ones, but the problems DO exist on the PC version as well.

http://bf4central.com/2013/...

[Enemy]

I fear DICE may soon approach the route of annually rushed Battlefield thanks to EA.

[konnerbllb]

I love bf but "soon"? Its already happening. They have always botched the launch since bf1942 on PC.

[Pandamobile]

Name a Battlefield game that has had a smooth launch.

You can't.

It's just the way it goes with some series. Most multiplayer games have horrible launch-period issues. They all get ironed out in the first couple patches, but the first week of a game's long life cycle is never a good metric for how good the game actually is.

[aceitman]

battlefield is every 2 years not annually.

[tehpees3]

We all know it will become an annual event if EA see it sell enough.

[TheStorm]

Nah, because their next game is not even Battlefield, it's the reboot of Star Wars Battlefront

[ELpork]

Launch games you say?

[svoulis]

Wait wait BF4 BROKEN on another platform ....no wayyyy

/s

[frostypants]

Dice is kind of the Bethesda of the FPS genre...they make epic games, but they also have epically bad QA.

[ufo8mycat]

Guys you have to realise DICE had to develop BF4 for 5 platforms - PS4,XBONE,PS3,360,PC

That takes a TON of work

There is bound to be issues

[TheGreatAndPowerful]

Then delay the game for a month or two or however long it needs to freaking work properly on release day...what's so difficult about that?

[Majin-vegeta]

Gotta beat COD.

[badkolo]

exactly im getting fed up with the excuses dev's use, dont release the game until its ready

[leogets]

the fact is that the problems are server based and can't be fully tested until its available to the masses! der

[DARK WITNESS]

unfortunately the truth is that it's not up to the devs.

it's up to the publishers, in this case EA. ea hold the $$$$ here. EA want it out before Cod, they don't care if it works or not.

this don't have nothing to do with the ps4 or it's power.

I have it on 360 and it's constantly locking up my console.

[TheGreatAndPowerful]

@leogets

and what do you think the purpose of the beta was for exactly?

[hellzsupernova]

so iron these issues out before release

[OrangePowerz]

Especially when EA insists on releasing before CoD.

[NovusTerminus]

Assassin's Creed 4 did that plus the Wii U and I have not hit any issues. DICE just launches the games almost in beta and then fixes it all after they cash in.

[famoussasjohn]

There's too many issues that are there to even have thought of releasing it with pride of putting DICE on it. The launch of BF4 on PC has been atrocious and had endless crashes and can only assume that the consoles are getting screwed too. There's been a lot of things that shouldn't have been passed through QA but was.

[svoulis]

I agree, but I feel like they should've waited then. I can't even play on PC without random crashes and horrible FPS I have 2x 680's. Then I get it for PS3 and PS4..(cause of the digital deal)

and it works alright on PS4 (did the whole campaign with only 2 crashes) but online crashed a few times already.

[pandehz]

Its the first Battlefield I havent bought yet. The beta was so horrid compared to BF3 that I decided to skip this completely. Crashing is one thing, the beta was almost unplayable. Also the final version from what I hear is not that different.

[DarthJay]

I had this happen myself. During single player. I have yet to actually get in a multiplayer game...

[elmaton98]

Try team deathmatch is about the best you can get.

[SITH]

I have had corruption errors four times on my 36o. I noticed it happens when the game either locked up during loading, or I turned it off during loading. To fix it I simply copy my save file into the cloud. When it happens again, I just copy the save file again but from the cloud to the hard drive.

[Idba]

I swear if EA knew GUhosts would be shit, theuy'd let Dice delay it

[No FanS Land]

WOW! and I thought about buying BF4 this PM. Bought my PS4 yesterday, but still haven't decided on a game yet.

[BG11579]

Start with Resogun, the game is pretty solid!

[JessiePinkmanYo]

I got Assassins Creed 4 as my first title on PS4. LOVE IT, and I wasn't a fan of other AC games, but the pirate theme is awesome. I'll be getting BF4 and CoD on X1 on Friday.

Side note which may help some playing BF on PS4-It takes a bit to install the game, which I read on here or another site. AC was being buggy and corrupt for me at first because I was getting to areas not yet installed. Try leaving the game on for a bit and let it install. It MAY help, which I did for AC4 and it works flawless now. I'm sure the other issues will be fixed with a patch. Good luck guys

[tehpees3]

You can't blame the firmware for this one. Honestly I'm not surprised by this news.

[DomceM]

ahhh the joy of buying a video game produced by a publisher that forced the developer to release the game way before its ready.

Thank god star citizen, PC exclusive is being funded by pc gamers only and publishers can go F themselves.

[SITH]

I must admit, I love the fact no publisher's nasty hands and overbearing needs are touching a gem like star citizen. I have pledged $720 into the game and still have at least one more ship I may buy.

[DomceM]

my contribution will be very modest. only $150.

Ive seen some people pledge $5000+ on the forums.
we are going to get an amazing game.

[aNDROiD17_]

HOW DO YOU FUCKING INVITE SOMEONE!?!?!?!?

[Guelly0209]

I been trying to figure that out since the game first came out when I played it on the ps3 smdh

[TKCMuzzer]

You have to join a game first, then hit start and invite. Backwards I know.

[idontcare]

lol, that's why i choose xb1

[Avernus]

lol? the game doesn't have a party system, not the console...

[aNDROiD17_]

lol the xbox one version wont have one either idiot. they dont have an invite system on any platform right now

[willie32]

The game removed the party system since it was difficult to develop. BF3 had a lot of issues when it released on PS3. It is lazy development.

[NeoTribe]

I can't even log into a match because the network is so fucked up. Havnt even played it online yet.

[Fil101]

I want bfbc3

[leogets]

why do u think battlefield bad company 3 would bring n e thing different to multiplayer? campaign has its comedy yes but mp is all the same

[Fil101]

Not sure what it would bring all I know is that I enjoyed bc2 more online than bf3 & bf4 just feels more like bf3.5

[ceed911]

Thank god i'm not the only one. DICE made BFBC2 fantastic and inadvertently became Call of Duty's competitor.

Unfortunately they were already working on BF3 that looked gorgeous but played a lot different and less fun for me than Bad Company.

So now as they are locked in this rivalry EA won't want to ruin brand recognition and will keep pushing out regular Battlefield titles so they dont confuse consumers.

I played so much BFBC2 and loved the Vietnam expansion. Disappointing that we get these Call of Duty DLC/changes in Battlefield making it worse.

[khellendros1]

Yeah, it's been crashing for me today too. Hopefully they will release a patch in the next few days.

[Sci0n]

The game is so amazing on PS4 when you can actually play it. The only mode I have issues playing is conquest at the moment.

[lobocob]

Yeah, Conquest is pretty pointless, atm, unless I'm doing something wrong.. But I'm also experiencing a bunch of other issues, about 90% of the time I don't get to finish a match because I get the error code from this article, and when I decided to go give the single player a spin, that ends with a corrupted save file, not a good look. It's a great game, I would really enjoy being able to actually play it.

[leogets]

game is awesome for me. had 1 crash since release on my ps3.. only thing I find funny is there's no team chat option or a squad invite option.. what the actuall f**k

[TKCMuzzer]

If you start a game and create a squad you can invite your friends, they automatically join your squad even if you make it private, otherwise you can flick between the squads in the team setup option by pressing start, it's all a bit backwards.

[TKCMuzzer]

I found it funny when EA blamed the PS4, it must be the PS4's fault that it keeps crashing on the PS3 as well.....typical EA.

[sycnation]

made with no party system ?
wow.
and recently I can't figure out how to change the difficulty in the campaign
anyone?

[fhizikz]

ive been through two ps4 already since launch both with the same turning off problem hopefully my third ps4 will work

[Deltaguy]

this game crashed my pc..twice....

[Ninjamonkey82]

Dice will fix it.

[KontryBoy706]

haven't crashed one time on my PS4. Amazingly I have been getting CRASH AFTER CRASH on my PC though. That's why I bought it for PS4 until they sort the BS out on Origin!

[Nodoze]

This is called ship and fix. A common issue for almost ALL software, not just games.

[spike]

I cant play Conquest

[Ben12]

Oh yah sing it with me. Ohhh it's an imperfect day. Thank god I Bought Xbox 1. Oh such an imperfect day it's just barely hanging on. Sing it with me people.

[ATiElite]

LMFAO!!! Oh My! Look Who's CRASHING NOW!

In your FACE! But Only to those Jerk of a FANBOYS who ridiculed the PC version of BF4 for Crashing.

Yes I'm acting Childish just like them because some people are just too stupid to be an Adult too so I gotta stoop to their LOW IGNORANT LEVEL from time to time.

Fanboy --"BF4 PC crashing then you should throw it away and go buy the SUPERIOR version on the PS4"

Sure why not so I can loose my progress and CRASH even MORE on a PS4, OK will do.

*A Game as Big as BF4 that got ported to 5 platforms is bound to have problems, I understand this more than anyone but DO NOT run around acting like one platform is NOT gonna suffer issues because they all will*

This Post was ONLY intended for the Silly Fanboys and their ignorant comments. I have BF4 PC and have ONLY suffered ONE crash! I see some bugs and glitches still but that DOES NOT detract from the fact that BF4 is AWESOME!

If you do not OWN BF4 but wanna whine and CRY about bugs/glitches then FINE go play COD:G and let us DIE HARD BF fans enjoy OUR game without YOU! DICE is still the BEST, The Frostbite 3 is still the Best Engine out.

This is why I hate new Gen consoles because DICE had to make BF4 for 5 platforms and did not have enough time to Debug but IDIOTS do not recognize this and just want to watch the world burn.

If XB1/PS4 had BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY more Gamers would upgrade to them FASTER thus DICE could of just SKIPPED the PS3/X360 versions and had time to Debug PC/PS4/XB1 versions.

So Basically this is another ISSUE of Consoles MESSING up a Game. Also the PC version is running pretty smooth as the amount of PC Gamers is huge and like I said the Crash issue was overblown, It may be Overblown on the PS4 too and same will happen next week for XB1 as N4G loves MISERY.

Battlefield Since 1942!

[norefugee]

FIX for crashing Battlefield 4 on PS4: hit your PS button go to settings > Application Saved Data Management > Saved Data in Online Storage > Download to System Storage > Battlefield 4 > Select All > Download. This should fix any crashing issues

[GHOSTxx420]

First game I bought and nothing but this keeps happening. Prolly happened a good 20 times so far, I think when I get off work tonight I shall go buy assassins creed!!

[BLAKHOODe]

This has happened to me a few times. The first time, I was about midway through the campaign on Hard difficulty when it crashed and told me my save was corrupted. I was BEYOND pissed! Then it happened about 3 times in multiplayer. After that, I started playing Call Of Duty: Ghosts...

and I made sure EA_DICE knew it, too!

[metalgod88]

I remember seeing this issue at numerous conventions. I would have guessed that they would have this fixed before releasing it on PS4... Either EA didn't give them time, or Dice is going downhill..

[d4sholil1]

I actually sold my PS4 because I wanted Watch Dogs and ordered the bundle from Amazon and the rest you all know, or should know. My next choice was BF4. I just wanted something different and logged in tons of hours with BF3 and decided to wait on BF4. I will definitely pick up the title next year after the titles I really want are available. Hang in there guys!!!

[T2]

Bf4 on ps3 has its own issues . Been playing for a week and had to hard reboot 4 times already ...

[leemo19]

This is the only game out of all the games Ive played on ps4 that has problems.

[RCslayer]

Glad I went with KillZone SF, I guess I picked the right one.

[RjLikesToDuel]

You Know, i never had a good impression of EA, espically after the online pass BS. but i thought, ok maybe they learned their lesson, and changed their ways...... lolnope

instead i get a broken game that I can't play. and unlike R* who's awful GTAO launch had a decent excuse.... EA has no excuses, they have no more chances. and worse yet? cant return the game for full price, and exchange it... or can I?

I know i usually hate on COD, but at least it's launches are usually decent (or maybe i just missed something).... meh what am i kidding? to Shadow fall

[bornsinner]

stay down from day one

[francisjairam16]

People had several crashes on PC.

[fullmetal297]

PC now PS4? SIT THE F*** DOWN DICE

[Flames76]

Another reason i stayed with the XBox One.Sony does not know how to do online at all and now they want to charge $50 a year to play online no thanks.

[Audiggity]

Given that BF4 is largely recycled from BF3 (not as bad as COD, but, pretty bad)... this would seem to be inexcusable to me.

Yet, the negativity and the extremely immature/entitled whining around GTA: Online makes this feel like EA/DICE are getting off easy.

So, the moral of the story is:

- If you build something NEW, AMBITIOUS and HUGE... if there's an error, it is the end of the world and everyone will complain constantly and still to this day complain about it.

- If you rebuild something and tweak a few things... then gouge everyone by charging full price for a repurposed product... never even bother to optimize the code/performance to take advantage of current hardware... and THEN you have an error that prevents people from playing it?! You are faced with mild annoyance and a somewhat apathetic crowd, patiently waiting to play your recycled merchandise...

I think I see why the gaming industry doesn't generally innovate or take risks like R* does; because the masses are too simple to "get it". They just want the same crap released every other year.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

My copy of the game froze in the first mission when getting into a weapon chest, but now since I installed it... I haven't had a single problem in campaign! BUT I will admit I haven't taken it online yet!

I haven't played Battlefield 4 or Killzone online yet... Im really freaking enjoying Blacklight! Im surprised by that myself... it's stupid fun!

[Fiestabrian]

I tried playing black light, said I had the wrong login, I don't know why haven't logged into it once.. I'll give it a try today. I'm having a love hate relationship with the ps4. The hardware is fine, might need a update 2.0 but bf4 is causing me to be frustrated, I was having weird texture issues last night, whole squares of ground we're trying to load. Huge squares, nonstop. I was lucky to get through one full game of obliteration without the game crashing. I was doing so good to :( bet none of my skills were recorded

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

Like I said dude, I haven't taken Battlefield online yet... it's looking like it's for the best! the problems you're having are reminding me kind of like what happened when RAGE came out... dare I say... Last Gen? haha

[Fiestabrian]

I just wanna play 64 player conquest but can't get into a single game :( why couldn't planetside 2 be a launch title

[AstroCyborg]

the games been crashing on all platforms not just the ps4

[windblowsagain]

The game seems to have broken code at the core level, that's the reason why it's crashing all over the place.

Strangely though. The beta was fine for me,lol

On both PC/PS3

[saber00005]

I've had my game crash twice doing campaign.. Both times, I lost my saves and said it was corrupted.. Both campaigns I played on hard, the second time around, towards the end of the game. I'm putting this game down for now.